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W. A. BUSIEK RANGE filed Feb. 11. 1926 Feb. 8,1927. 1.616.680.

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Application filed February 11, 1926.

The object of mydevice is. to make. a

7 ran e, articularl .a as. ran e andcons cerns itself principally with the oven ofsuch a range. In order .to bake or cook equally well in all portions of the'oven, it'becomes necessary to have all portions of the oven at the same temperature. 'If the oven is hotter atone portion than another, the article such. as a cake, placed therein to'bake will burn on one surface and not bake properly, if at all, on the other surface. Equality in temperature that is necessary is accomplished by means of a proper circulation of the products of'combustion in and about the oven. In order to produce this'circulatio'n, a certain arrangement of hues. and bafiie plates is necessary. My device relieves the intense heat from the lower portionof the oven and for that reason, with-my device it is possible to bake close to the ovenbottom I of the range without danger of burning the objects during the baking. Furthermore, by

lengthening the path of the products of co1nbustion from the burners to the flue, more radiation takes'place into the. oven and for I that reason there is fuel economy because the stack temperatures are practically those of atmosphere. I .A further object is to make an oven that is made of few and simple parts that lend themselves readily to multiple production and that can be easily and simply replaced.

With these andother objects in view, my invention has relation to certain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described, pointecl out in the claim and illustrated in the drawings, in which, V

Fig. 1 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of my oven. r

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of my oven on the line 2-2 of Fig. '1.

Fi 3 is a rear elevation of my oven taken onthe line 3-3 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a sectional plan view of Fig. 2.

Numerals designates the bottom of the range supported on the legs 6; numerals 6' designate the side walls, numeral 7 the rear wall, and numeral 8 the top.

In spaced relat'onship with the range bot 1 tom 5 is secured the oven bottom 9, the space between the rangebottom and .oven bottom forming the flue. 10. Numerals 11' designate the side walls of the oven held'in' spaced relationship with the side walls of the range, forming fiues 12 and 13. The interior, of the Serial No. 87,626.

. oven is divided into an upper and lower portion by-means of the. plate 14 secured to the sidewalls 11 and the rear. oven wall 15. p The burner 16 is positioned in the portion of the oven below the plate 14. Numeral 17 designates the fuel supply pipe to the burner 16. r i

' Numeral 18 designates theoven door, covering the ovenportion proper and numeral 19 designates a door covering the portion below the plate 14:. Numeral 20 designates the flue stack, numerals 21 the oven shelves, and numerals 22 the objects to be baked.- The struc ture thus far described is conventional. The

products of combustion after leaving the burner 16 divide take' difierent paths, one inside the'oven and the other outside of the oven and meet again in theflue stack 20. The path of the products of combustion is indicated with arrows; The path of the products of combustion outside of the oven is the following: Starting from the burner 16, they pass rearwardly, through theopen- Iin'gs 23 into the flue between the rear wall 7 and the rear oven wall 15-, then upwardly to the top 8, then through the openings 24. 1 into thespace between the top 8 and the top so 7 Y of the oven,forwardly between the-battle plates 25 and the walls 1 1. The bafile plates 25 are secured to the. insideof the top Sand the rear oven Wall to the ovenfront.

of the flue opening 26. This-tortuous path ferred to the oven walls. The second path of the products of combustion is the following: They leave the burner as before, travel laterally 'throughthe openings 27 into the flues 12 and 13, then upwardly until'they meet the flue closing plates 28, where they are baffled inwardlythrough the openings 29 into the oven and then into causes theheat to be radiated to the metal in itspath. By conduction, the heat is transloo' the vents 30 formed in .the'rear wall of the oven,- into the flue formed betweentherear wall 7 and the rear oven wall 15. The prodnets of combustion then travel upwardlybetween the arms of the V bafiie 32, formed second V baflle'plate 31, divide and pass out of the openings 24,: where they meet the products of combustion described-in the first betweenth'e rear wall of the oven and the rear wall of therange, where they meet a In a range, an oven surroundedby'fiues, a source of heat, the source of heat and oven so arranged that the products of combustion from the sourcelot heat-are required to di vide,.one traveling through the rear flue, separating, traveling upwardly over the top of the oven, thron -h the upper flue for- Wardly, around bafl les, then rearwardly to the stack of the range, the other traveling laterally from the sourceof heat through openings in lateralWalls, upwardly in the lateral flu-es, then being blocked or battled and passing. into the oven, then through vents in therear 'ove'n' W'all, then upwardly between the back Wall of the oven and the back Wall of the range into the upper flue bGtWGQITthG top of theoven and the top of the range, then forwardly with the first productsof'coinbustion to the stack; In testimony whereotl' atfix' my signature. V

XVILLIAM A. BUSIEK. 

